I thought the Odyssey was going to be the actual nadir of Conservative garment rendering over popular media, but now they have Meryl Streep as Aslan to contend with and I love it.

The @blankcheck.bsky.social Finding Nemo episode coming out on Father's Day is incredible timing.

Are the Star Wars Prequels the most "9/11 was an inside job" coded piece of art there is?

I know we are all expecting some giant event to cause Trump to skip Don Jr.'s wedding. But the best and honestly funniest possible outcome is nothing happens.

For those who didn't know you needed it, here is "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" performed in Cherokee: youtu.be/OMv7Pz5-tb0?...

Akisodane Yigatloyiga (I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry)

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Movie pitch: Time travelers go back to 1970 Broadway to try to make Paris is Out! a huge smash hit, propelling its young producer Donald J. Trump to further invest in his passion for musical theater and not take over his father's real estate business.

However bad you may feel like things are going, take comfort you never made cookies so bad they made national news.

The degree to which Right Wingers are mourning the death of Spirit Airlines as if it was an American institution is embarrassing. It was a company we all agree sucked, and so it failed. Trying to blame Biden or Warren to deflect blame from Trump makes you defend a shitty company no one liked.

We heading towards an economic realignment worse than the dot com and sub-prime mortgage crisis combined, and whoever is the next President will be crucified for it. Our technocratic overloads have built a house of cards that is set to collapse, but will take none of the blame.

I am not one of those WHCD truthers, but it does seem telling that they seem BIG MAD that assassination attempt number three seemed to have zero effect on how anyone is going about their business.

The fact the next verse after the shooting attempt yesterday is "And THAT is why we need the Ballroom" is sending me. Like how did this become a security thing?

Potentially controversial take: I am increasingly uncertain how many books I need to own. Reference books, RPG books, maybe some comics. But I also simply don't re-read books often enough to justify needing a physical copy when libraries exist.

Been thinking increasingly about how our entire frame of reality, or entire frame of how things foundationally WORK is based on the idea of scarcity. Some people can't eat because we don't have enough food. Some people have to die of horrific diseases because there aren't enough doctors.

The NEW New Math just dropped, and guess what: it's dumb!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

Trump wants you to believe he was under the impression this was representing him as a doctor. He either is stupid, thinks you are stupid, or both.

So here's the play: -Christian Nationalists start to see enough daylight to separate themselves from Trump. After all, he can't be elected again. -They start to shift their focus on the next guy to prop up, probably JD. -The framing becomes JD cleans up the mess "demon possessed" Trump left behind.

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Cinapse@cinapse.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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Happy Liar's Day everyone. Approach every announcement with optimal skepticism, which shouldn't be hard because that's kind of how we all live now anyway.

I am not a one issue voter becaue I recognize the broad complexity of social and pragmatic issues that face a political state the size of ours, but if I was, it would be "We have to fix dental insurance."

Every once in a while I remember Glenn Beck loved Bo Burnham's Inside and am so curious what he got out of it.

So Sora, OpenAI's video creation software, is shutting down, a mere two weeks after announcing a rights deal with Disney that never materialized. Suspect that means the AI generated content platform on Disney+ is also dead. Is the world healing?

I have absolute trust in Akiva Schaffer at this point, but a live action Cinderella spin-off feels like a dramatically unexciting project for him to take up.

I can't speak for anyone else, but personally I think a government run on the ethos of "What can we do to make sure the markets stays happy?" is probably bad?

Top down view of what the @cinapse.bsky.social crew loved at #SXSW2026. I stamp all the ones that I saw on this list, and trust the opinions of @juliansingleton.bsky.social, @edtravis.bsky.social and David Delgado for the ones I didn't. And you can find my reviews for both Chili Finger and Buddy.

Cinapse@cinapse.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For the record, since I am burned out from SXSW and probably won't write a review for it: I really liked Project Hail Mary as a triumphant work of both optimism and fearlessness.

I hate that the word "franchise" is having to be used to describe the Project Hail Mary success. That is a corporate word that crept into our film discourse lexicon, and in this particular case is not even that helpful.

THE LAST CRITIC is a delightful portrait of Robert Christgau, legendary rock critic, whose approach to both criticism and the written word are admirable. The documentary is a little shaggy, but Christgau is so charming it is hard to be mad at. #SXSW2026

Casper Kelly's Buddy tackles the question, can a TV show love you? Should it?

Cinapse@cinapse.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BEAST RACE: A blistering dystopian footrace film out of Brazil. Blends the style of half a dozen other things, but blends them distinctly new ways. If you ever wondered if Mad Max and Running Man had a baby and then borrowed the sun soaked visuals of early Fast movies, check out ASAP. #SXSW2026